Timely reminders: a case study of temporal guidance in PIM and email tools usage

  • Authors:
  • Jacek Gwizdka

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe our research in progress that explores the use of personal information management (PIM) tools in time and attempts to establish temporal attributes of information. We report on a short field study undertaken to examine relations between tools and information life-cycle. We propose four information types: prospective, ephemeral, working and retrospective. We outline relationships between PIM tools, email and different types of information. We use this framework to explain problems observed with handling information.